Fernando Baltazar

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.

Helena is on the verge of losing her home because her name was deliberately misspelled in her late husband’s will. Together with her son, Armando, she attempts to rectify this injustice by confronting a bureaucratic, corrupt, and patriarchal system—a process that brings them closer as mother and son.